Chris Christie Turns Down Federal Obamacare Money

Posted on March 19, 2014

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie engaged in a tense debate with an Obamacare advocate during a town hall in South River, N.J., on Tuesday, telling her the state won’t invest taxpayer dollars in a “failed federal program.”

Maura Collinsgru, of New Jersey Citizen Action, accused Christie of failing to facilitate Medicaid expansion, thus getting in the way of people getting the coverage they need. She also accused the governor’s administration of responding with “silence” when her group has attempted to contact them.

“That’s not part of the silence you’ve been met with when I expanded the Medicaid program? Let me ask you this: When I expanded the Medicaid program, is that silence?” Christie asked.

“You’re simply wrong,” he added, explaining that New Jersey is spending more federal and state dollars on Medicaid than when he took office.

Christie also made it clear that he does not support Obamacare, which he called a “failed federal program.” The crowd responded with applause when he took a swipe at President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

Because New Jersey missed a deadline to submit a plan to the Department of Health and Human Services last month to show how it would use a $7.6 million federal grant to help insure the uninsured, the state had to return the money. New Jersey did not set up its own online insurance exchange, instead directing residents to use the federal exchange.

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Good for crispy critter??????????? Where have we heard that "Now I get it. They want the borders secured first – – -" kind of speech only to be re-directed to support libturd agenda? Shucks, people – have this glib-tongued rhetoric confuse you and cause you to forget it has been less than 2 years since this conservative(?!) fraud declared obozo the greatest leader for America? Krisco epidomizes the "talk conservative – legislate libturd" politician.

I lok at it this way: Even a fat slob of a Republican can get it right some of the time. For Christie, this is one of those times.

Obamacare is a failed federal program that was planned to fail from the start, so that it could be replaced by something Draconian. I know this because the Democrats are complaining that the Republicans have "no alternative to Obamacare" if it is repealed. Why do we need an alternative to a hideously bad law before we can repeal it?

Obamacare is like Prohibition. We don't need an alternative to repeal it. Nothing at all is better than Obamacare.